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© Mr John Kilgallon
IoE Number:
330538
Location:
SPOFFORTH CASTLE, RUINS, CASTLE STREET (west off)
SPOFFORTH WITH STOCKELD, HARROGATE, NORTH YORKSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr John Kilgallon
Date Photographed:
28 August 2001
Date listed:
22 February 1985
Date of last amendment:
22 February 1985
Grade
II*
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SE 35 SE SPOFFORTH WITH STOCKELD CASTLE STREET
(west side, off)
3/70 Spofforth Castle, ruins
II*
Ruins of fortified house. C13 with major rebuilding in C14 and C15.
Coursed sandstone and ashlar. 2 storeys on north side, single storey on
south - built against rock outcrop. 6 bays. First-floor hall with solar
above undercroft and kitchens. Stair turret at north-west corner. Entrance
to undercroft at north end of west side; rock-cut steps down to undercroft
from centre of east side. Windows include trefoil-pointed arched windows
and some with plate tracery. Chamfered plinth, continuous dripmould at
first-floor level. Buttresses with offsets, pointed stone roof with finial
to stair turret. Interior of undercroft has bases of octagonal piers and
rock-cut doorway. A scheduled Ancient Monument. For fuller description see
R J A Bennett et al 'Spofforth Castle', HMSO, 1965.